Clifford W. "Tiny" Krueger (June 24, 1918 – October 15, 1988) was an American politician, businessman, and circus performer from the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

In 1942, Krueger was the Wisconsin Progressive Party candidate for Wisconsin's 25th State Senate district (having won the Progressive primary election by only twelve votes in a three-way race), losing to Republican William McNeight, with 6512 votes to 11,603 for McNeight and 3,437 for Democrat Donald J. MacCormick.

)[7] In 1946, with the Progressive Party having dissolved, he ran in the Republican primary election, defeating McNeight and going on to win the general election against McNeight (running as a write-in candidate) and Socialist former Assemblyman Herman Marth.

[8] Having defeated two challengers in the 1950 primary, he was re-elected in the general election; but his district was split in the next re-apportionment and his term ended in 1955.

[3][9][10][11][1] In 1956, he returned to the Senate from the new 12th District (Iron, Lincoln, Oneida, Price, Taylor, and Vilas counties),[12] and would hold that office continuously until his 1983 retirement.